Doing Philosophy (See link below for more video lectures on Intro to Philosophy of the Human Person)

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This video presents the important concepts in doing philosophy, which necessarily involves the act of asking questions, contemplating about the mystery of life, and constructing arguments and be able to rationally evaluate them in the end. For this reason, doing philosophy means to ask questions, to reflect, and to formulate and evaluate arguments.

The approaches to doing philosophy includes two things, namely, 1) Philosophical Reflection and 2) Constructing and Evaluating Arguments. There are two types of philosophical reflection according to Gabriel Marcel, namely, primary reflection and secondary reflection.Primary reflection is a kind of thinking that calculates, analyzes, or recounts past events. Secondary reflection, on the other hand, is characterized by the act recapturing the unity of the original experience by gathering back together what has been separated by primary reflection. Thus, secondary reflection allows us to think holistically. In this way, secondary reflection enables us to integrate our fragmented and compartmentalized experience into a coherent whole.

Marcel’s notion of primary reflection can be expressed most visibly in our ability to think logically, that is, in the ability of the mind to construct and evaluate arguments. For this reason, although it may appear as a kind of selfish thinking when applied to human relations, primary reflection can be considered as another important tool in doing philosophy.

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